A modern incarnation one of the world’s oldest known instruments:

The Whale Drum is a modern example of one of the world’s oldest known instrument families: the tongue or slit drum. These progenitors of the “idiophone” family were originally developed in Africa thousands of years ago. They were originally carved from hollow logs or wooden blocks and struck to produce percussive musical tones. It is one of the few instruments considered to possibly predate language itself. Over the ages, slit drums have been substantially refined to allow more accurate intonation and wider key ranges. Soundiron selected the whaledrum for its marimba-like warmth, dreamy tone, gentle softly-rounded attack and subtly undulating decay. The lower notes have an especially deep richness to them.

The 14” 8-tongued vermilion tongue drum was recorded in a dry studio environment with mallets, wooden sticks and brushes. Each mallet struck note was recorded at both tongue center and edge positions, with an average of 10 dynamic velocity layers and 10 round-robin variations per note. The stick and brush articulations were played over various edges and surfaces around the drum. In the second session, the instrument was recorded in a large reverberant tile and stone hall from a slight distance with mallets and sticks. This “wet” hall sound is ideal for orchestral arrangements and more atmospheric songwriting.

As a bonus, this library contains a smaller 3-note slit drum and a wooden toy xylophone. There is also a great bonus selection of delicate atmospheric pads and evolving ambiences sculpted from the original acoustic source material. All of these articulations and sound sets offer independent articulation layering, blending and switching right at your fingertips.

Content

Full 10x10 Round Robin

Expressive dynamic layering

Dry Whale Drum Mallets, Sticks, Brushes and Effects

Wet Hall Whale Drum Mallets and Sticks

Baby Whale Drum

Toy Xylophone

Sound-designed ambiences and atmospheric synth pads

Stick and Brush Percussion Effects

This library requires the full version of Native Instruments' Kontakt 5.5 or later.

Requirements

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Please notice: This library can not be played with the free "Kontakt Player"! To use this "Open Kontakt" format, you need a full version of "Kontakt", which is included in products such as Komplete or Komplete Ultimate.

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Mac

Kontakt 4:

OS X 10.6 & 10.7 = until 4.2.4

OS X 10.8 and higher = no longer supported

Kontakt 5:

OS X 10.6 = until 5.0.3

OS X 10.7 = until 5.3.1

OS X 10.8 = 5.0.3 - 5.5.1

OS X 10.9 = 5.3.0 - 5.6.6

OS X 10.10 = 5.3.0 - 5.7.3

OS X 10.11 = 5.5.1 - latest

Mac OS 10.12 = 5.6.1 - latest

Mac OS 10.13 = latest

Mac OS 10.14 = latest

Mac OS 10.15 = latest

Kontakt 6:

Mac OS 10.12 - 10.15 (latest update)

Windows

Kontakt 4:

XP = until 4.2.4

Vista = until 4.2.4

Windows 7 = until 4.2.4

Windows 8 & 10 = no longer supported

Kontakt 5:

XP = until 5.2.0

Vista = until 5.2.0

Windows 7 = latest

Windows 8 & 10 = latest

Kontakt 6:

Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack)

FOR ALL SYSTEMS:

1GB free disk space

Additional hard drive space according to the library’s size

SUPPORTED INTERFACES

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